My Beloved Has Risen from Death’s Embrace

tted her startled chest, exhaling a relieved breath, “What a coincidence, I finally managed to get a break from the film set, and here you are!”

“It’s only ten o’clock, still early. Can I come over to your place for some late–night snacks?”

“What are you holding? Do you have work tonight?”

It had been days since she last saw him, and upon seeing him, Xanthea chattered joyfully, only to notice after a while that the man in front of her had a dark, ominous look on his face, his presence chilling like eternal ice, sending a shiver down her spine.

“Orion, what’s wrong? Did something upset you?”

“So everyone can, but not me, is that it?”

Orion looked at her; his gaze was piercing and cold, reminiscent of the chilling sharpness when he first saw her body in that old crypt.

Xanthea was both puzzled and frightened by his stare, “What do you mean by ‘can‘ or ‘cannot‘? Orion, what are you talking about?”

her cheek. As he was about

appropriate to have a secret rendezvous with another man In the middle of the night?” Orion turned around, his

stunned by his shout, with a look of total bewilderment on her

he calling her Ms. Nightshade

rendezvous with a man in the middle

of the door startled Xanthea, and. She quickly realized what he

Benjamin to Sunset Hills Estates for a secret rendezvous, and he

are so

“Bang, bang, bang!”

“Bang, bang, bany!”

door of 3001, shouting, “Hey, Orion, come out and explain

was only ten o’clock, how is that considered the middle

Benjamin was just here to discuss the script with me, and you twisted it into an affair? Don’t you think you’re being a bit

the way Benjamin touched her head before leaving was weird.